Live Auction 7818Spanish Splendour - The Collection of a Marqués
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Lot 54

A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND GREEN LEATHER READING-CHAIR

CIRCA 1810, IN THE MANNER OF MORGAN & SAUNDERS

Closed5 November 2009

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GBP 5,750

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY AND GREEN LEATHER READING-CHAIR
CIRCA 1810, IN THE MANNER OF MORGAN & SAUNDERS
The horse-shoe back with rotating hinged ratcheted book support, the pierced splat above padded fawn leather seat, on later cabriole legs and claw-and-ball feet, back legs with castors, printed trade label 'BARTLETT CHAPMAN & COLLING 7 WEST STREET, BRIGHTON', and another fragmentory label 'COLCHESTER'
31¾ in. (80.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

Thomas Sheraton noted about a related library chair pattern that it was 'intended to make the exercise of reading easy' (T. Sheraton, The Cabinet Dictionary, London, 1803, pl. 5). This type of chair was adopted by the Strand cabinet-makers Morgan and Sanders, and one of their related 'library reading chairs' featured in R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, in September 1810.